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The best American history essays on Lincoln
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Reflections on the life, political leadership, character, and legacy of Abraham Lincoln include contributions by such notable American historians as James McPherson, Edmund Wilson, and John Hope Fr...
Reflections on the life, political leadership, character, and legacy of Abraham Lincoln include contributions by such notable American historians as James McPherson, Edmund Wilson, and John Hope Franklin.
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- Creator
- edited by Sean Wilentz for the Organization of American Historians
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- First edition
- New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009
- Physical Details
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- xvii, 252 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780230615564, 0230609147, 9780230609143, 0230615562, 0230609155, 9780230609150
- OCLC
- ocn226357020
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [245]-246) and index.
- General appraisals. Abraham Lincoln and the self-made myth / Richard Hofstadter ; Abraham Lincoln / Edmund Wilson ; Naturally anti-slavery : Lincoln, race, and the complexity of American liberty / James Oliver Horton -- The private Lincoln. A strange, friendless, uneducated, penniless boy / David Herbert Donald ; Mary and Abraham : a marriage / Jean H. Baker -- Lincoln the politician. The master politician / Richard N. Current ; The origins and purpose of Lincoln's "house-divided" speech / Don E. Fehrenbacher ; Why the Republicans rejected both compromise and secession / David M. Potter -- Lincoln, the presidency, and the Civil War. The Emancipation Proclamation : the decision and the writing / John Hope Franklin ; Lincoln and the strategy of unconditional surrender / James M. McPherson ; Lincoln and the Constitution / Mark E. Neely, Jr
Subjects
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Political and social views.
- Political leadership -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
- Presidents -- United States -- Biography.
- United States -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865.
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.